Re: gcc 3 and the iostream debacle

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>     #include <iostream>
>     #include <iostream.h>

VAXC sometimes wanted things like

	#include stdio

No quotes, no brackets, no extension.

This obviously made portable code a challenge. Particularly when
TOPS-20 had a compiler that tokenized everything in the preprocessor
so you couldn't ifdef it out.

Oh, and "$" and "@" were legal characters in identifiers.

I forget how I got around this. Maybe I didn't.

Anyway, there's reasons I hate extensions to C. Let alone derived
pseudo-object-oriented languages based on a design that had to work
as a C preprocessor. I've modified C, adding new features, but only
in play. Shipping code that implements or uses them is vile.

C++ is dead to me.

• gcc 3 and the iostream debacle Simon Wistow 10:31 on 31 Aug 2005
  • Re: gcc 3 and the iostream debacle peter (Peter da Silva) 14:17 on 31 Aug 2005
    • Geoff Richards 18:49 on 31 Aug 2005
      • too deep to show

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